Kotlin, Groovy and Java Compilation

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That was unexpected!

Using this plugin you can see the dependencies between tasks: https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/com.dorongold.task-tree

When I ran it on my sample project I got the following for build:

:build
+--- :assemble
|    \--- :jar
|         \--- :classes
|              +--- :compileGroovy
|              |    \--- :compileJava
|              |         \--- :compileKotlin
|              +--- :compileJava
|              |    \--- :compileKotlin
|              \--- :processResources

As you can see compileGroovy depends on compileJava and compileJava depends on compileKotlin.

What you can try is this:

./gradlew -m compileGroovy -x compileJava && ./gradlew -m compileJava -x compileGroovy

This will result in:

:compileGroovy SKIPPED

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 0.63 secs
:compileKotlin SKIPPED
:compileJava SKIPPED

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 0.639 secs

It’s so crazy that it just might work :wink: